The first few weeks with my new INTEL D201GLY2

So i decided that my epia board isnt quite powerful enough for my "vdr-needs" and got myself a D201GLY2, a nice little mini-itx board by intel with passively cooled celeron 220 (1.2 GHz). Even though it has a little higher cpu-cooler it fitted in my case without any problems. I dont have that much other hardware in that box, so i didnt expect any problems. After all its just an ide-hd and -dvd-burner and my dvb-s board!

But i was wrong, the system did boot through grub, but couldnt find my hd afterwards. No big problem there, just get the required kernel-modules into the init-rd and try again, i thought. ;-)

And actually i was right, but it took me a couple hours to do that. Why? My dvd-burner caused the system to reboot when i inserted a disc, so booting with the opensuse-boot-cd (or -dvd) led to funny reboot-loops.
I did get it to work with a spare dvd-drive and after adding pata_sis to my init-rd everything went real easy.

Even wakeup is no problem. The bios doesnt let you enter a wakeup time, so nvram-wakeup is pretty useless, but /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm (or /proc/acpi/alarm) works like a charm.

Anything else to say? Well im quite satisfied with this board. Its been running stable for a few weeks now and has enough cpu-power for my needs. Even with the mplayer-plugin i never got it over 30%. It also boots way faster than my previous epia board.

So much for now!!
:-)